1. A method in a data processing system for handling a situation, the method comprising:
responsive to detecting a situation, selecting an aging function from a plurality of aging functions based on the detected situation, and applying the selected aging function to the situation; and
presenting alerts regarding the situation based on the aging function.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the aging function is an exponential decay function wherein a severity for the detected situation decreases exponentially with respect to time if any additional situations of a same type as the detected situation are not detected during such time.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the aging function includes a user settable threshold.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the aging function is an increasing time function wherein a severity for the detected situation increases with respect to time if any additional situations of a same type as the detected situation are not detected during such time.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the increasing time function is one of a linear function or an exponential function.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the aging function is a decreasing half-life function wherein a severity for the detected situation decreases by half after a given time window has elapsed if no additional situations of a same type as the detected situation are detected during such time window.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the aging function is a combination of a linear function and an exponential function.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting step comprises:
displaying the alert on a console.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the situation is one of a denial of server, a suspicious Web server request, or an unauthorized access of a server.
10. A method in a data processing system for handling a situation that includes a set of events, the method comprising:
monitoring for events;
responsive to detecting an event, which triggers the situation, applying an aging function to the situation, wherein the aging function is used to identify a severity of the situation; and
presenting an alert for the situation based on the severity of the situation identified by the aging function, wherein a threshold at which the situation is triggered is based upon a correlation between the set of events.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the aging function is selected from a plurality of aging functions based on the triggered situation.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the correlation between the set of events is a severity of each of the events.
13. A data processing system comprising:
a bus system;
a communications unit connected to the bus system;
a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes a set of instructions; and
a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to apply an aging function to the situation in response to detecting a situation, and present alerts regarding the situation based on the aging function, wherein the aging function is selected from a plurality of aging functions based on the detected situation.
14. A data processing system for handling a situation, the data processing system comprising:
applying means, responsive to detecting a situation, for selecting an aging function from a plurality of aging functions based on the detected situation, and applying the selected aging function to the situation; and
presenting means for presenting alerts regarding the situation based on the aging function.
15. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the aging function is a an exponential decay function wherein a severity for the detected situation decreases exponentially with respect to time if any additional situations of a same type as the detected situation are not detected during such time.
16. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the aging function includes a user settable threshold.
17. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the aging function is an increasing time function wherein a severity for the detected situation increases with respect to time if any additional situations of a same type as the detected situation are not detected during such time.
18. The data processing system of claim 17, wherein the increasing time function is one of a linear function or an exponential function.
19. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the aging function is a decreasing half-life function wherein a severity for the detected situation decreases by half after a given time window has elapsed if no additional situations of a same type as the detected situation are detected during such time window.
20. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the aging function is a combination of a linear function and an exponential function.
21. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the presenting means comprises:
means for displaying the alert on a console.
22. The data processing system of claim 14, wherein the situation is one of a denial of server, a suspicious Web server request, or an unauthorized access of a server.
23. A computer program product in a computer readable medium for handling a situation, the computer program product comprising:
first instructions, responsive to detecting a situation, for selecting an aging function from a plurality of aging functions based on the detected situation, and applying the selected aging function to the situation; and
second instructions for presenting alerts regarding the situation based on the aging function.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A wing mirror unit for a motor vehicle comprising:
a mirror foot;
a mirror housing connected to the mirror foot; and
an actuator;
wherein the mirror housing is adjustable with respect to the mirror foot between a folded orientation, in which the mirror housing substantially extends along said motor vehicle, and an unfolded orientation, in which the mirror housing is substantially oriented transversely to said motor vehicle; a pivot for the folded and unfolded orientations is provided outside the mirror foot and within the mirror housing; the actuator is configured to move adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot transversely with respect to each other; and further wherein the pivot is movable and configured to translate in a transverse direction toward and away from the mirror foot.
2. The wing mirror unit according to claim 1, wherein the actuator is configured to adjust the wing mirror unit in or near the unfolded orientation between the first position and the second position, such that during adjustment between the folded orientation and the unfolded orientation the wing mirror unit is substantially in the first position.
3. The wing mirror unit according to claim 1, wherein the mirror foot comprises a base pivot, around which the mirror housing, under action of the actuator, is pivotally arranged with respect to the mirror foot.
4. The wing mirror unit according to claim 3, wherein the adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot form contact surfaces; the contact surfaces are located around the base pivot at a first distance; and the mirror foot and the mirror housing cooperate via at least one cam path assembly curvedly extending around the base pivot at a second, smaller distance.
5. The wing mirror unit according to claim 4, wherein the at least one cam path assembly comprises a cam provided on one of the mirror housing or the mirror foot, the cam engaging a cam path provided on the other.
6. The wing mirror unit according to claim 5, wherein the cam path includes a flat path part that, during folding and unfolding of the mirror housing with respect to the mirror foot, provides the slit between the contact surfaces.
7. The wing mirror unit according to claim 6, wherein a run-on surface in or about the unfolded orientation allows the contact surfaces to adjust between the first and the second position.
8. The wing mirror unit according to claim 1, wherein the actuator is a linear actuator.
9. The wing mirror unit according to claim 8, wherein the adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot form contact surfaces; and at least one of the contact surfaces is comprised of an elastic material.
10. The wing mirror unit according to claim 8, wherein the mirror foot and the mirror housing are translatably arranged with respect to each other, and the adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot, in the second position, cooperate in a form-closed manner and, through translation in transverse direction with respect to said motor vehicle, are adjustable between the first position and the second position.
11. The wing mirror unit according to claim 1, wherein the adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot form contact surfaces; and at least one of a contact surfaces is comprised of an elastic material.
12. The wing mirror unit according to claim 11, wherein when the at least one contact surface is elastically deformed, the mirror housing can pivot with respect to the mirror foot.
13. A mirror unit for comprising:
a mirror foot;
a mirror housing connected to the mirror foot; and
an actuator pivotally connected to the mirror foot,
wherein a pivot for folding and unfolding the mirror housing relative to the mirror foot is provided outside the mirror foot and within the mirror housing; and the actuator is configured to move adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot transversely with respect to each other between a first position, in which the adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot form a slit, and a second position, in which the adjacent surfaces abut each other; and further wherein the pivot is movable and configured to translate in a transverse direction toward and away from the mirror foot.
14. The mirror unit according to claim 13, wherein the mirror housing substantially extends along a motor vehicle in a folded orientation and the mirror housing is substantially oriented transversely to said motor vehicle in an unfolded orientation.
15. The mirror unit according to claim 13, wherein the actuator is configured to adjust the mirror unit in the unfolded orientation between the first position and the second position, such that during adjustment between the folded and the unfolded orientation the mirror unit is substantially in the first position.
16. The mirror unit according to claim 13, wherein the mirror foot includes a base pivot that pivotally engages the mirror housing.
17. The mirror unit according to claim 16, wherein the adjacent surfaces of the mirror housing and the mirror foot each form contact surfaces around the base pivot at a first distance, and wherein the mirror foot and the mirror housing cooperate via at least one cam path assembly curvedly extending around the base pivot at a second, smaller distance.
18. The mirror unit according to claim 17, wherein the at least one cam path assembly comprises a cam on one of the mirror housing or the mirror foot and a cam path provided on the other for engaging the cam, wherein the cam path includes a flat path part that forms the slit between the contact surfaces.
19. The mirror unit according to claim 18, wherein the flat path part allows the contact surfaces to adjust between the first and the second position.
20. The mirror unit according to claim 13, wherein said actuator is a linear actuator that adjusts the mirror foot and the mirror housing between the first position and the second position in a transverse direction with respect to a motor vehicle.
21. The mirror unit according to claim 20, wherein at least a portion of one of the contact surfaces of the mirror foot or the mirror housing is comprised of an elastically deformable material.
22. The mirror unit according to claim 1, wherein the pivot for the folded and unfolded orientations is provided within the mirror housing.